By Dennis Yu I just published an article called Why Saying Please and Thank You to AI Makes You a Better Prompter. This meta article explains exactly how my AI agent wrote that piece, published it, sent an email about it, and then updated itself — step by step — so you can see the full process behind the output. …
Why Saying Please and Thank You to AI Makes You a Better Prompter
By Dennis Yu Tom Hawkins owns Hawkins Chevrolet in Fairmont, Minnesota. His family started the dealership in Sherburn in 1967 and moved it to Fairmont in 1989. Tom has been selling Chevrolets since 1981. He and I have been in office hours together for years, and I visited him in Minnesota where we grabbed dinner downtown. Today, I picked Tom …
Honoring Jack Hughes: A Gen-Z Guardian Protecting Families Online
Jack Hughes, an 18-year-old from Wisconsin, turned his experience bypassing parental controls into a mission to protect families online. As co-founder of Parent Tech Support, he helps parents configure devices, close digital loopholes, and keep kids safe through coaching, podcasts, and free guides.
How Google Actually Decides Who Ranks: Entities, Trust, and the Knowledge Graph
Whether it’s search engines, social media, AI, or TikTok, the underlying structure of how digital marketing works is the same. As a former search engine engineer who was there when the guts of the internet was built, I’ve watched these systems evolve from early web search into social media algorithms and now AI algorithms. And underneath all of them lies …
The Framework the CEO of American Airlines Taught Me
I had the CEO of American Airlines as a mentor of mine. His name was Albert Casey, and he didn’t just run American Airlines. He was the Postmaster General of the United States, he ran the LA Times, and he ran the Resolution Trust Corporation. The man operated at the highest levels of business, and the funny thing is, the …
Brain to Bot: Turn Knowledge Into AI Agents
Turn expert knowledge into repeatable AI-agent workflows using evidence, SOPs, shared context, and quality gates that a team can inspect and improve.
How We QA’d Marko Sipila’s Personal Brand Site
A Claude Opus 4.6 agent audited markosipila.com and found 13 QA issues across 11 blog posts and 10 pages — from SEO scores averaging 8 out of 100 to an empty Gallery page and raw markdown rendering on a live page. Here is exactly how the agent found every issue and what needs to happen next. The Task Summary The …
How Marko Grew His SaaS to 300 Customers Using Conference Videos
If you’re running a SaaS company or an agency, Marko and I have a simple trick for you. It costs almost nothing, takes very little effort, and builds more trust than any ad campaign ever could. Make videos at conferences. But not about yourself. The setup The evening before the ACA conference for HVAC companies, Marko and I walked through …
Local Falcon: How We Caught Google Changing Our Client’s Business Hours
Litsey Heating and Air in Louisville does 24/7 emergency HVAC work. They’re the kind of company that answers the phone at 2 AM when your furnace dies in January. One week, the weekend calls just stopped. Dead silent. When my team dug into it, we found Google had quietly changed their Google Business Profile hours to show them as closed …
Capital City Roofing: An Atlanta Roofing SEO Audit
Brad Strawbridge grew Capital City Roofing from zero to $3 million in year one and now wants $10 million — but his Atlanta roofing SEO is the bottleneck. A live audit with Brad and his COO Edward found a website so weak it carries almost nothing, while the Google Business Profile does all the work. Here is what we found …
Why Most Coaches Are About to Get Crushed by AI (And How Some Will Thrive)
Most course sellers and coaches are about to face a reckoning, and it has everything to do with AI. If you’re selling information, you’re in trouble. Information is now free. Anyone can ask ChatGPT, Claude, or any number of AI tools for the knowledge you’re packaging into your $200-a-month coaching program. AI cannot provide transformation. The shift from information to …
How We Updated Jack Hughes’ Personal Brand Site with 36 Blog Posts from His YouTube Podcast
Jack Hughes is the founder of Parent Tech Support and one of the youngest online safety advocates in the country. At 18, he turned his childhood experience of bypassing every parental control his parents set up into a business helping other parents protect their kids online. His personal brand website lives at jackhughes.me, built on the BlitzMetrics Personal Branding platform. …